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1748. T. Dyche, Dictionary (5 ed.). Cull(s.): a cant word for a man, either good or bad, but generally means one that a wench has picked up for some naughty purpose.
1760. Johnston, Chrysal, ii., 17. Your secret, grave, old, rich culls, just fit to do business with.
1771. Henry Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling, vol. I., ch. xxvi. Harley . . . sallied forth with a blush of triumph on his face, without taking notice of the sneer of the waiter who, twirling the watch in his hand, made him a profound bow at the door, and whispered to a girl who stood in the passage something in which the word cully was honoured with a particular emphasis.
1823. Scott, St. Ronan's Well, ch. xxx. 'Na, Na,' answered the boy: 'he is a queer auld cull, he disna frequent wi' other folk.'
1830. Bulwer Lytton, Paul Clifford, p. 75 (ed. 1854). A famous cull is my friend Attie—an old soldier—has seen the world, and knows what is what.
1839. W. H. Ainsworth, Jack Sheppard (1889), p. 14. Capital trick of the cull in the cloak to make another person's brain stand the brunt for his own—capital!
1889. Puck's Library, April, p. 18. Showman: Look-a-here, cully, yer don't 'xpect ter git a lecture on nat'l history 'n'a free ticket ter the antipoads fer a quarter, do yer?
Rum cull, subs. (theatrical).—The manager of a theatre; also called a cully-gorger.
Culls, subs. (old).—The testes.
b. 1574, d. 1637. Ben Jonson. Claw a churl by the culls, and he'll shite in your fist.
Cully-Gorger, subs. (theatrical).—The manager of a theatre; a companion or brother actor. [Cully (q.v.) = a man + gorger (q.v.), a swell, employer, or boss; literally a well-dressed man.]
Cully-Shangy, subs. (common).—Copulation. For synonyms, see Greens.
18(?). Carey, Life in Paris, p. 276, s.v.
Culminate, verb (University: obsolete).—To mount a coach-box.
1803. Gradus ad Cantabrigiam, s.v.
Culty-Gun, subs. (venery).—The penis. For synonyms, see Cream-stick.
Cum-Annexis, subs. (West Indian).—One's belongings; specially applied to one's wife and children. [In allusion to a legal locution connected with land transfer in Demerara. The outlying farms of estates come under this general description; e.g., Belair, (a well-known property) cum annexis includes, amongst others, estates formerly known as La Penitence, Turkeyen, Cuming's Lodge, Industry, etc., and in official documents this congeries of estates is spoken of as Belair cum annexis.]
Cummer, subs. (common).—An intimate. For synonyms, see Chum.
Cundum, subs. (old).—An obsolete appliance worn in the act of coition, to prevent infection: so-called from the name of its inventor, a colonel in the Guards, temp., Charles II.: the modern equivalent is known as a French letter (q.v.).
1767. Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset, A Panegyric upon Cundum, p. 208. Happy the man who in his pocket keeps, Whether with green or scarlet riband bound, A well-made cundum.
Cunnilinge, verb (venery).—To tongue a woman. [Latin cunnilingus, a form which occurs in Martial, from cunnus = the female pudendum + lingo. Cf., Tip the velvet.
